3 Questions: How AI could optimize the power grid
While the growing energy demands of AI are worrying, some techniques can also help make power grids cleaner and more efficient.
3 Questions: Why meritocracy is hard to achieve
Professor Emilio Castilla explains how bias can creep into employers’ talent management processes — and what leaders can do to make their organizations fairer and more meritocratic.
3 Questions: How to launch a successful climate and energy venture
A new book by experts at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship offers 24 steps to success.
Q&A: The secret sauce behind successful collegiate dining
Andrew Mankus, MIT’s award-winning director of dining, describes why leading with a “students-first mentality” leads to better food offerings for the entire community.
3 Questions: Using computation to study the world’s best single-celled chemists
Assistant Professor Yunha Hwang utilizes microbial genomes to examine the language of biology. Her appointment reflects MIT’s commitment to exploring the intersection of genetics research and AI.
Faces of MIT: Brian Hanna
MIT Venture Mentoring Service Operations Manager Brian Hanna matches entrepreneurs with industry professionals who help take their ventures to the next level through personalized mentorship and expert advice.
Q&A: On the ethics of catastrophe
Jack Carson, an MIT second-year undergraduate and EECS major, is the recent winner of the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics.
3 Questions: How AI is helping us monitor and support vulnerable ecosystems
MIT PhD student and CSAIL researcher Justin Kay describes his work combining AI and computer vision systems to monitor the ecosystems that support our planet.
Q&A: How MITHIC is fostering a culture of collaboration at MIT
A presidential initiative, the MIT Human Insight Collaborative is supporting new interdisciplinary initiatives and projects across the Institute.
3 Questions: Addressing the world’s most pressing challenges
Mihaela Papa discusses the BRICS Lab, her role at the Center for International Studies, and the center's ongoing ambition to tackle the world's most complex challenges in new and creative ways.
3 Questions: How a new mission to Uranus could be just around the corner
PhD student Chloe Gentgen discusses why the ice giant is such a high-priority solar system target, and how the Starship launch vehicle may hasten our explorations there.
Q&A: On the challenges of operating in the Arctic
How does one access and conduct research in one of the world’s harshest and most demanding environments? Lincoln Laboratory undersea systems engineer David Whelihan explains.
3 Questions: On humanizing scientists
The prolific MIT author and physicist Alan Lightman examines the working lives, contributions, and idealism of researchers.
3 Questions: The pros and cons of synthetic data in AI
Artificially created data offer benefits from cost savings to privacy preservation, but their limitations require careful planning and evaluation, Kalyan Veeramachaneni says.
3 Questions: On biology and medicine’s “data revolution”
Professor Caroline Uhler discusses her work at the Schmidt Center, thorny problems in math, and the ongoing quest to understand some of the most complex interactions in biology.